E.O.Wilson's comment?

Bryan Heidorn heidorn at ALEXIA.LIS.UIUC.EDU
Mon Feb 5 15:26:52 CST 2001


At least in A Global Biodiversity Map, Science, Vol 289, 29 September 2000
p. 2279.
"What is lacking and needed now is a concerted effort, comparable to the
Human Genome Project (HGP), to complete a global diversity survey--pole to
pole, whales to bacteria, and in a reasonable short period of time."

At 10:59 PM 2/5/01 +0200, Niklas Wahlberg wrote:
>Hello,
>     A while ago somebody on this list (I think) mentioned that E. O. Wilson
>had said that the next megaproject of human civilization, after the human
>genome project is completed, should be to document the number of species on
>this planet. Can anyone tell me the source of this comment? Thanks!
>
>Cheers,
>Niklas

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